"I had done a 10 mile run before I had surgery and I, at least, want to make progress to PR (personal record) and beat the old me," Jeremy Dooly of Lehighton, Pa. said.

"I would do it again in a heartbeat; this is my first time," Laura Taylor of Berwyn, Pa. said.

12-year-old Jason Keels was also among the runners.

"I've been running for at least six years now," he said.

Some of the Action News family also ran the race including meteorologists Cecily Tynan and Adam Joseph.

"My slowest time in years, but I had the best time, the time of my life. It was so much fun. Crowd support was amazing," Cecily said.

"It was my worst year ever, but I knew going in I knew going into it I had a torn hamstring and I said 'this is a race I love to be part of every year. Torn hamstring or not, if I had to walk, I'm going to do it because it's such an amazing, electric event,'" Adam said.

Runners and spectators alike agree that this year's Blue Cross Broad Street Run was an abounding success.